Progress against the field
John Murtagh has dropped 3:58 behind the field from Valencia 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 8:02 quicker, so 4:04 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 183 days between Dublin 2025 and Barcelona 2026, still ended 1:36 ahead of the field.
How this is worked out ⓘ
A finish time moves for two reasons: the athlete, and the race — its course, its floor, its day. For each pair of races in a row in one category, we take everyone who raced both and use the middle of how much they moved (the median) as "the race". Whatever is left is the athlete. Doubles are compared only when the same two people raced both, and told as the pair's; relays are left out. A pair with fewer than 15 athletes in common is not shown. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 9 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:02:0244/1442Beat 97%
↑ 170 days after Barcelona 2026 2:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:25 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:16 faster for everyone: 2:41 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:16 faster This athlete1:25 slower -
Barcelona14 May 2026Doubles Open · Men58:0420/797Beat 98%
↑ 161 days after London Excel 2025, with Francis Murtagh 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 0:04 slower on the clock, against 0:04 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:04 slower This pair0:04 slower -
Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:37 PB16/1158Beat 99%
↑ 183 days after Dublin 2025 1:36 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:56 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:20 faster for everyone, so 1:36 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:20 faster This athlete3:56 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men58:0077/1815Beat 96%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:04:3359/955Beat 94%
↑ 26 days after Valencia 2025 2:53 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:33 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:26 faster for everyone, so 2:53 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:26 faster This athlete1:33 faster -
Valencia17 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:06:0617/455Beat 96%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men57:32 PB24/704Beat 97%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men57:4325/638Beat 96%
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Rotterdam6 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Men59:4213/722Beat 98%
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World Championships NiceDate unknownDoubles Pro · Men1:03:23 PB226/387Beat 42%